| English Dictionary: muss |
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| 5 results for muss |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- muss
- n
- a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a
mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
Synonym(s): mess, messiness, muss, mussiness
- v
- make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair" [syn:
muss, tussle]
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Muss \Muss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mussed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mussing}.]
To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple. [Colloq. U.S.]
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OE. mus a mouse. See {Mouse}.]
A term of endearment. [Obs.] See {Mouse}. --B. Jonson.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OF. mousche a fly, also, the play called
muss, fr. L. musca a fly.]
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be
taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
--Shak.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Muss \Muss\, n.
A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess,
but influenced by muss, a scramble. [Colloq. U.S.]
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